Senate Roll Call 48, 109th Congress · March 15, 2005
To express the sense of the Senate that failing to address the financial condition of Social Security will result in massive debt, deep benefit cuts and tax increases.
Question before the chamber: On the Amendment
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2006 and including the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2005 and 2007 through 2010.
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance — assigned by Library of Congress subject specialists, not by this site.
How this vote is scored
Which tracked issues this roll call counts toward, and which way a yea vote moves a member on each. Direction is decided per issue, because one bill can push two issues opposite ways.
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Expressing a non-binding sense of the Senate.
Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance
Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (56)
- Lamar Alexander
- Wayne A. Allard
- George Felix Allen
- Robert F. Bennett
- Christopher S. Bond
- Samuel D. Brownback
- Jim Bunning
- Conrad Burns
- Richard Burr
- Robert C. Byrd
- Lincoln D. Chafee
- Saxby Chambliss
- Tom Coburn
- Thad Cochran
- Norm Coleman
- Susan M. Collins
- John Cornyn
- Larry E. Craig
- Mike Crapo
- Jim DeMint
- Michael DeWine
- Elizabeth H. Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Eric Ensign
- Michael B. Enzi
- William H. Frist
- Lindsey Graham
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Charles T. Hagel
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Inhofe
- Johnny Isakson
- Jon Kyl
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mel Martinez
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Lisa Murkowski
- Ben Nelson
- Bill Nelson
- Pat Roberts
- Richard J. Santorum
- Jeff Sessions
- Richard C. Shelby
- Gordon Harold Smith
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- John E. Sununu
- James M. Talent
- Craig Thomas
- John Thune
- David Vitter
- John W. Warner
Nay (43)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Evan Bayh
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Barbara Boxer
- Maria Cantwell
- Thomas R. Carper
- Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Kent Conrad
- Jon Stevens Corzine
- Mark Dayton
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Byron L. Dorgan
- Richard J. Durbin
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- Tom Harkin
- Daniel K. Inouye
- James M. Jeffords
- Tim Johnson
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Blanche Lambert Lincoln
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Patty Murray
- Barack Obama
- Mark L. Pryor
- Jack Reed
- Harry Reid
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Ken Salazar
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Charles E. Schumer
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Debbie Stabenow
- George V. Voinovich
- Ron Wyden
Not voting or present (1)
- Mary L. LandrieuDid not vote
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